Book recommended by a librarian: TBD Ended up with The Life We Bury
Book that’s been on your TBR list for too long: The Three Musketeers
A book of letters: The Historian
An audiobook: Twenty-Thousand Leagues Under the Sea (didn’t review. It was SO SO boring)
Book by a person of color: Parable of the Sower
Book with one of the four seasons in the title: Winter’s Tale changed to The Winter Over
A book that is a story within a story: Jellicoe Road
A book with multiple authors: Rage Against the Night (didn’t review, but really enjoyed this)
An espionage thriller: Cryptonomicon
A book with a cat on the cover: Master and the Margarita (started but was bored. Changed to Pet Sematary
A book by an author who uses a pseudonym: the Cuckoo’s Calling
A bestseller from a genre you don’t normally read: Way of Kings (fantasy, ugh) Went with a different book by the same author Misborn
A book by or about a person with a disability: Ghost Boy
A book involving travel: Well of Lost Plots (time travel!) I haven’t been reviewing this series, but I HIGHLY recommended it. It’s the Thursday Next series by Jasper Fforde
A book with a subtitle: The Sex Lives of Cannibals: Adrift in the Equatorial Pacific
A book published in 2017: The Song Rising (third book in the Bone Season series) I haven’t reviewed this either, but it’s a really fun series. Fantasy YAish
A book involving a mythical creature: Dreams of Gods and Monsters changed to Borne
A book you’ve read before that never fails to make you smile: Subtle Knife
A book about food: The Man Who Ate Everything changed to Hunger
A book with career advice: Masterminds and wingmen (I am raising two boys) Good, but no review needed. Either it pertains to you or it doesn’t
A book from a nonhuman perspective: Watership Down (forgot to review, I guess, but I really liked it)
A steampunk novel: The Golden Compass
A book with a red spine: Sanctuary (Faulkner!)
A book set in the wilderness: All the Pretty Horses changed to White Fang, but didn’t review
A book you loved as a child: Sweet Valley Confidential (loved the series in middle school)
A book by an author from a country you’ve never visited: HP and the Cursed Child
A book with a title that is a character’s name: Lisey’s Story
A novel set in wartime: 1984
A book with an unreliable narrator: Annihilation (love this series!!)
A book with pictures: TBD Hamilton
A book with a main character that’s a different ethnicity than you: The Joy Luck Club (can’t believe I didn’t review this. I loved it)
A book about an interesting woman: TBD but this won’t be hard to find (went with the last book in the Thursday Next series)
A book set in two different time periods: It
A book with a month or a day of the week in the title: December
A book set in a hotel: The Hotel on Place Vendome: Life, Death, and Betrayal at the Hotel Ritz in Paris (didn’t review. So boring)
A book written by someone you admire: Mycroft Holmes (Kareem Abdul-Jabbar is a childhood hero of mine, and his opinion pieces are fantastic)
A book that’s becoming a movie in 2017: A Monster Calls (a reread. What an amazing book) WHY WHY WHY didn’t I review this??? It’s amazing!!!
A book set around a holiday other than Christmas: The Halloween Tree (about the history of Halloween. Was okay)
The first book in a series you’ve never read before: The Young Elites
A book you bought on a trip: American Pastoral (I was expecting better. Just very dull)
A book recommended by an author you love: The Troop (Stephen King recommended)
A bestseller from 2016: The Underground Railroad
A book with a family member term in the title: Daughters of the North
A book that takes place over a character’s life span: Life After Life
A book about an immigrant or a refugee: Alexander Hamilton (didn’t review. Great bio)
A book from a genre/subgenre that you’ve never heard of: S by JJ Abrams (Ergodic literature)
A book with an eccentric character: Sherlock Holmes (didn’t review. He’s just so well known)
A book that’s more than 800 pages: Carrion Comfort
A book you got from a used book sale: the second Way of Kings book (changed to In the Woods)
A book that’s mentioned in another book: Tales of Beedle the Bard (no review needed)
A book about a difficult topic: The Hour I First Believed (about school shooting)
A book based on mythology: Lost Hero changed to Dreams of Gods and Monsters, but I didn’t review it. Really great, smart YA fantasy trilogy.
Pleasant Nights 